Gunwalking History
Gunwalking was the new deal of the 1930’s a liberal plan to create a welfare state
in America, or a conservative defense of American capitalism. Gunwalking was a
tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol. It ran a
series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011 in the Tucson and Phoenix area.
ATF purposely allowed licensed firearm dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw
buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them.
Gunwalking operations were in part a response to longstanding criticism for minor
gun violations and high level gun smuggling figures. ATF engaged in undercover
operations to catch individuals involved in the US Mexican gun trade called
Project Gunrunner. …show more content…
Gunwalking
operations lacked sufficient operational controls to stop dangerous weapons from
getting to violent criminals.
Gunwalking allows firearms to cross into Mexico and be passed up the cartel
supply chains. US law enforcement agencies were charged with stopping illegal
weapons knowingly mexican criminals. Operations fast and furious was an
expansions of a similar program run during the bush administration three years
earlier. The idea was to target high ranking cartel members by allowing known
straw purchasers to cross the border into mexico and deliver the weapons. It
allowed over 2,000 mostly AK47’s worth $1.5 million, to walk without
interdiction into Mexico. In February 2011, a letter signed off by Justice
Department Criminal Division claimed the US had never let guns walk. The
operations led to indictments against 40 alleged gunrunners and criminals, but the
guns run through Fast and Furious have been found at Mexicans murder scenes as
well where border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down. ATF primary role
was was to reduce firearmrelated violent crime associated with Mexican drug
in America, or a conservative defense of American capitalism. Gunwalking was a
tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol. It ran a
series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011 in the Tucson and Phoenix area.
ATF purposely allowed licensed firearm dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw
buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them.
Gunwalking operations were in part a response to longstanding criticism for minor
gun violations and high level gun smuggling figures. ATF engaged in undercover
operations to catch individuals involved in the US Mexican gun trade called
Project Gunrunner. …show more content…
Gunwalking
operations lacked sufficient operational controls to stop dangerous weapons from
getting to violent criminals.
Gunwalking allows firearms to cross into Mexico and be passed up the cartel
supply chains. US law enforcement agencies were charged with stopping illegal
weapons knowingly mexican criminals. Operations fast and furious was an
expansions of a similar program run during the bush administration three years
earlier. The idea was to target high ranking cartel members by allowing known
straw purchasers to cross the border into mexico and deliver the weapons. It
allowed over 2,000 mostly AK47’s worth $1.5 million, to walk without
interdiction into Mexico. In February 2011, a letter signed off by Justice
Department Criminal Division claimed the US had never let guns walk. The
operations led to indictments against 40 alleged gunrunners and criminals, but the
guns run through Fast and Furious have been found at Mexicans murder scenes as
well where border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down. ATF primary role
was was to reduce firearmrelated violent crime associated with Mexican drug